This weeks columns

Beware when politicians fly the flag for the Faith

We are living in an age of apostasy. In the United States, at least 80 per cent of young adults stop practising the Faith in the first years after Confirmation. My home diocese is undergoing a massive reorganisation that will end in the closure of dozens of parishes because there simply are no longer enough Catholics to justify our current infrastructure.
We would drive ourselves to madness if we tried to figure out how this all could have been avoided. Traditionalists will point to the Second Vatican Council; their foes will point to what they perceive to have been the ... continue reading.